The Ellies
Yanira Collado
2025 Creator Award Winner
2023 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner
Yanira Collado
For a research project focused on the subversive nature of textiles used by African Maroons that were instrumental in hundreds of uprisings throughout the Caribbean and later through the Underground Railroad in the Southern United States.
For an experiential and interdisciplinary project that explores how textiles have served as instruments of subversive resistance and identity reconciliation, disrupting colonial, authoritarian rule in the Americas.
Zafa: Preserving the Oral Tradition
Preserving the etymologies of five sacred narratives from the Dominican Republic by recording and sharing these oral traditions as told by Dominicans in South Florida and the island of Hispañola.
Ellies Award
2025 Creator Award
$10,900
2023 Creator Award
$5,000
2019 Creator Award
$10,000
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